When you use commerce after someone signs-up using the membership provider, you may want to create your own commerce user to store custom data. For example, on one project when you signed up, you had to supply your date of birth and a newsletter opt...
Hey, folks. When we work with the basket in Episerver commerce, it is quite likely you may need to store some custom data against a line item. This might be the image of the product, the discount applied to it etc... In commerce manager you can do th...
I find that debugging and fixing errors probably takes up 25% of my day. Sitting in front of a PC not knowing why something is broken is very annoying, to say the least. Over the years, I have, unfortunately, had to come up with and discover many d...
SEO friendly URLs are essential to improve the usability and accessibility of your website, also by hiding your Page Id's from your customer, you're adding an extra layer of security by not leaking any of your internal Episerver data. A page ID isn'...
Recently, Episerver have moved to a bi-weekly release schedule, which is great as you can constantly upgrade. The bad side of this is, if you're working on a large project with 7+ people, when someone adds a new project, goes to Nuget installed Epi....
In Episerver 7 onwards, you may notice that the CMS injects two tags above and below all content areas. When it comes to keeping a static design in-sync with your CMS site, very often you will get broken styles and a lot of crazyness.
The extra di...
We had a requirement on a project to pre-populate a commerce test customer for our dev environment. Whenever the website was first loaded, a test user should be pre-added. In our scenario, the customer had a number of extra properties like had signe...
If you want to unit test your controllers at some stage, you'll want to test your Action Results. In Epi-Server, it is very likely you may want to Redirect to another episerver page from an MVC controller, e.g. a redirect to any page, after login, or...
I have a requirement to implement a custom log-in block. As the block could be placed anywhere on the site, data messaging becomes more of a key feature. How will you render the control on a page, then post back to the page that calls it and trigge...
This is the third post in my unit testing series. So far we have created a single EpiDependencies class to manage Episervers API in a single class. This will make out constructors a lot cleaner, as we only need to pas 1 thing in, rather than 8 or 9...
This is the second part of my unit testing series. In Unit Testing Part 1 I discussed simple ways that you can organise your project so all the Episerver API dependencies are hidden away in a single file to help improve your sites testability. As of...
I have spent many an hour of my life messing around with trying to get information to be passed between different controllers in different states. A fairly common requirement is having a page that is made up of a form built up via several blocks, fo...
